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Kia ora everybody.... Hope all is well. Heres Ko te rerenga performed at the Bowery in NYC 2004And heres E Ranagatahi ma - acoustic version - perfromed in Belgium 2006Anei a Maranga ake ai performed at a press conference in Taiwan 2007

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Member Since: 21/10/2006
Band Website: www.myspace.com/wainz
Band Members: Wai Ripia - Gaynor Rikihana - Blanche Rawiri - Maaka Phat
Influences: Our Families
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Sounds Like: "Polynesian-choir-meets-Brazilian-Afroblok (except it's none of that, of course - just trying to give you a flavour). All seriously impressive: beautiful and scary all at once." - fRoots UK
Record Label: Minaaka Music distributed by JAYREM
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

WOMAD

OK its a bit late but .... WOMAD was MADNESS... Real good madness!!! It was a real honour to play this year . We had  some good gigs but most of all we met some awsome people. Among the many we m...
Posted by on Thu, 19 Apr 2007 19:30:00 GMT

New York

New York, New york!!! We love this city... We hate Canadaian airlines!!! When we flew in Canadaian airlines managed to loose just about all of  , no hang on, they lost all of our bags!! it wasnt ...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:52:00 GMT

Just come back from Canada

Its Saturday the 14th  and we are heading to Minnesota!! yeah!! We just ( a month ago ) came back from Toronto, Canada where it was cold as!! - 30 + ...The most wicked thing was that even through...
Posted by on Fri, 13 Apr 2007 23:43:00 GMT